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Carlsbad Caverns National Park Lake Chandelier in Lechuguilla Cave.
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Mosses and Liverworts
The park’s diversity of tiny plants is displayed. Among them are the flat, turquoise-colored liverworts and the bright green mosses. This picture also shows lichens, algae, and spikemoss.
NPS Photo by Renée West
The park’s diversity of tiny plants is displayed. Among them are the flat, turquoise-colored liverworts and the bright green mosses. This picture also shows lichens, algae and spikemoss.
 
The park’s mosses and liverworts are part of the living soil crusts, as described under Lichens.

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Jim White, Amelia Earhart and others at Carlsbad Cave National Monument in 1928.

Did You Know?
The first "official" and very influential book on Jim White's adventures in Carlsbad Cavern was written in 1930 by a newsman who at best would today be called a tabloid journalist.
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